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Per Seat or Per Use Pricing: A Framework for Evaluating the Right Strategy for Your Startup

Tomasz Tunguz

Madhavan provided an excellent framework for answering this question, in addition to a multitude of other insights. Sometimes, entering the market with a different pricing model disrupts incumbents. Those are some of the chestnuts from the session, and they provide a rough framework. Competition.

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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

TechCrunch

Disrupt is turning 12 years old. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. This year, we’re curating 200 companies for you to check out and meet for the first time in the Expo Hall, with the top 20 gracing the Disrupt stage to launch their wares.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” . “The appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as the newest member of Sima.ai’s board of directors is a strategic milestone for the company.

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Should Your Startup Differentiate On Pricing?

Tomasz Tunguz

Some companies want to change the world in one dimension: a better product or a disruptive go-to-market. But customers wanted the better product with the same pricing framework as the rest of the industry. There are spaces where pricing innovation is welcome, especially when there is a large, expensive incumbent.

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The Disruption Debate is Focused on the Wrong Ideas

Tomasz Tunguz

Jill LePore’s New Yorker polemic “ The Disruption Machine ” attempts to debunk the incredibly popular Innovator’s Dilemma, a theory written by HBS professor Clayton Christensen. Neither Taleb nor Christensen maintains a list of the industries or companies likely to be disrupted, for example.

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An actionable framework for founders bridging into web3

TechCrunch

It’s been on the lips of a growing number of investors on the hunt for disruptive opportunities blockchain-based technologies can offer. Blockchain is at its most powerfully disruptive when it supplies the missing link. can repair the attention-driven digital economy. What’s your web3 strategy?